by June of next year. That is almost one-third of its population.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

(Recording) He says that the discord centers the major influx of Kurds into Kirkuk in recent years, increasing its population by 10 percent.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

The International Monetary Fund along with the EU and World Bank pledged roughly $25 billion to help Hungary and its population of 10 million return to economic growth.

VOA: standard.2010.05.29

The nonprofit group Population Services International and its partner Association de Sante Familiale launched the service in two thousand five.

VOA: special.2010.05.03

Joanna Dovan from the mayor's office says it is true that the city now has its lowest population of the past ten years.

VOA: special.2009.07.13

He stressed its role as a bridge between cultures, and its unique position as a large secular democracy with a 99 percent majority Muslim population.

VOA: standard.2009.04.06

He says UMNO maintained power for years by giving special treatment to its core constituency - ethnic Muslim Malays, who make up 60 percent of the population.

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

Chan notes no one can predict what will happen later in the year when the southern hemisphere enters its influenza season and the virus spreads more rapidly throughout the population.

VOA: standard.2010.01.18

But the critics and supporters agree one of the British national health service's biggest challenges, as it enters its seventh decade, are the mounting cost of new technology and medicines, and an aging population.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

Saying President Obama has offered Iran every opportunity for constructive diplomatic dialogue on its nuclear program, Senate Democratic Foreign Relations Committee chairman John Kerry said more robust sanctions are in his words the only way to dramatically increase the economic and diplomatic pressure on Iran from the outside and help leverage pressure on the regime from its own population which wants a different relationship with the world.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25